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A database that stands apart from all the others.

AthenaDB is a secure, AI-native database that runs natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris — with plans to expand further across the Unix world. Your data stays encrypted and yours, with search that actually understands it.

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A truly native database — runs directly on your OS, no VM, no container required.

Windows

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macOS

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Linux

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FreeBSD

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Solaris

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Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris — all shipping today, each built and tested on the platform itself. Platforms →

Why AthenaDB is different

Retrieval, security, and trust designed together — not stitched onto a general-purpose datastore.

Search that understands you

Ask in plain language and get real answers. Keyword, meaning, connections, and time are searched together — not bolted onto an old relational engine as an afterthought.

Your data stays yours

Everything is encrypted on disk with our own cryptography. There's no cloud you're forced into and no lock-in — you can always open, back up, and export your own data.

Nothing borrowed under the hood

AthenaDB is one engine, built from the ground up. No SQLite, no bundled datastore — the storage format and the crypto are ours, so they're ours to secure and audit.

Databases that trust each other

With the Instance Trust Fabric, your instances can cooperate securely — sharing filtered context, not raw access — over verifiable, revocable trust instead of shared passwords.

From embeddable to clustered

The same engine, from a single encrypted file on a laptop to a high-availability service.

All product areas

AthenaDB Core

Available now

The secure engine everything is built on.

AthenaDB Lite

Available now

The engine embedded — an encrypted, offline-first local database.

AthenaDB Server

In progress

Multi-user server runtime with an admin API.

Available now

The Instance Trust Fabric

A secure cognitive trust mesh between database instances. Instances authenticate each other with cryptographic identity, negotiate scoped roles, and exchange permission-filtered context — never raw remote SQL. Active-Directory-style trust, for AI-native databases.

How the Trust Fabric works

Domain packs

A signed, sandboxed add-on architecture turns AthenaDB into a vertical knowledge system. Three ship today.

How packs work

Legal

Available now

A litigation-grade case knowledge graph.

Medical

Available now

Encounter-centric clinical records.

Research

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Scholarly works, claims, and citations.

Try AthenaDB free for 180 days

Create an account and issue a trial license backed by the live activation edge. No credit card — 4 editions from Community to Enterprise.

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